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Purple dead nettle

The purple dead nettle (Latin name: lamium purpureum) is a plant, a few inches tall, whose leaves shade from green at its bottom to purplish at its top, with bright purple flowers.

In Oklahoma, it grows and blooms purple flowers before the last frost, in February and March, allowing bees to gather its pollen for food. It dies down quickly in spring when things warm up.

It is also found alongside Henbit, which is easily mistaken for it, as they both have similar looking leaves and similar bright purple flowers.

If you take one of the flowers, and pull it off the plant, and eat the end of it, it is sweet.

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